SPN - 5.03 - initial impressions

[feliciakw]

1. This is a very uncomfortable ep.
2. It hurts.
3. My brain hurts.
4. I don't know what to do with this information.
5. Fix story, plz?

I . . . there's stuff in this ep that I just don't know what to do with. It hurts. Obviously, I'm not down with Dean trying to corrupt Castiel. Aside from the obvious personal reasons, it feels like fic. In the same way that fic that retreads where Show has gone kind of annoys me, I find that Show retreading where fic has gone kind of annoys me, too. Which is silly, because Show has priority over fic, but, yeah. Not so much in the like department. Particularly with this particular little plot device.

And I'm sad to say that this ep has me re-evaluating my feelings about Dean. I'll have to re-watch the ep because I missed some of his lines, but . . . his attitude and behavior kind of unsettled me.

And Dean says he's fine alone? Yeah, Dean, like I really believe you on that one. Okay without Sam? Meh, yeah, whatever. But okay alone? I'm not convinced.

I just . . . I don't know what to do with this information.

And "Hector Williams" as Raphael. First, wow. So not the Hector I knew and loved. Also Raphael being so . . . disbelieving. And kinda mean-spirited. Ouch.

Lucifer and Sam . . . Someone fix the story, plz? I . . . Show is making me very nervous, and I don't like having to wait a week between eps. Neither am I particularly fond of the direction the story is going.

It all makes me very uncomfortable and makes me want to pull away from show.

It will get better, right? Right?

(As a completely speculative aside, I think I now understand why Jensen was quick to point out at VanCon that they will be doing some old school stand-alones. The mytharc has taken some very dark and uncomfortable and awkward turns, and I just kind of wonder how the actors feel about it. I could be entirely reading my own interpretation into this, but I get the distinct impression that Jensen misses and/or prefers the old school storylines with Dean and Sam working together. Or maybe that's just me.)

Comments

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Agreed. With a caveat.

Um...yes? Since I stated the exact same caveat in my own reply? (albeit with more squee and less clarity, lol). :)

It's been implied, but when he goes to a brothel, I think he expects to have to pay. You'll also notice that Dean never goes into the back rooms. He has a drink with the girl at the bar, but he never requests her "services."

Well, yes, that much would be obvious (ref. your first sentence). But I'm not as sold on Dean not actually requesting services--he may not have planned to, but it sure looked to me like he was enjoying himself as prelude to whatever (of course, he may very well have been planning on abstaining just to make sure he kept an eye--so to speak--on Castiel *g*).

I'm uncertain which we were supposed to take from these scenes, is all.